Manga and Comic Reviews
This volume represents a couple endings as it collects the last four issues of the “Conan the Cimmerian” ongoing series and writer Tim Truman and artist Tomas Giorello’s final story about the title character’s adventures at this time in his life. As “Conan” stories go, it’s pretty by-the-numbers as the barbarian’s escape with the beautiful […]
This volume begins with a very pleasant surprise: two full-color cast recap pages that introduce you to the main characters and elements of the story and their place in it. While Zoichi and Fuyu need no introduction at this point, the other parts were very welcome in a series where clarity isn’t its strongest suit. […]
The latest volume of “Twin Spica” arrived in the mail last week. This volume continues on in much the same manner as the previous ones, so I really don’t have anything new to say about its contents. What is interesting about vol. 7 is its appearance: this is a much thicker volume than usual. It’s […]
Oh man! “The Viltrumite War!” I remember that sitcom! BEST! COMEDY! EVER! Even if it was moved around for fourteen different timeslots in the three months during the summer of 1987 that it was on. Alright, so while the series’ naming trend of its collected editions is effectively broken with this volume, it still […]
I was telling a friend over the weekend how Vertical’s publishing efforts have reached the point where Dark Horse’s manga used to be for me. In short, they’ve produced such consistently interesting and entertaining works that I’m willing to pick up something from them by an author or a title that I might not be […]